Mercilessly funny and provocative, "Fresh Off the Boat "is also a serious piece of work--and an important one.

Huang was exposed to cooking through his parents; his mother prepared traditional Taiwanese dishes at home, and he learned American regional cuisines through cooking at his father's Orlando restaurants. Please consider a small donation to help support my blog It has all of the elements of a compelling narrative, intriguing character, amazing growth journey, and strong themes. It’s like his professor told him, once you’ve engaged in conversation with everyone around the table and found the truth, you need to stand up for it.Huang, who narrates the show, has expressed his doubts from the beginning: Before Fresh Off the Boat even premiered, he wrote an essay for Vultureabout the obstacles he faced bringing his story to TV. After misadventures as an unlikely lawyer, street fashion renegade, and stand-up comic, Eddie finally threw everything he loved – past and present, family, and food – into his own restaurant, bringing together a legacy stretching back to China and the shards of global culture he’d melded into his own identity. Just make A Chink’s Life … With Free Wonton Soup or Soda: A reverse-yellowface show with universal white stories played out by Chinamen. Dwight Garner said it was “a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America. I told them that Wu Tang’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard came way before “making it rain,” but, alas, no one cared.

Eddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus—the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night—and one of the food world’s brightest and most controversial young stars. They’ve been hot trash recently, but I still hold out hope … BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN A PROMO FOR YOUR LIFE STORY IS GOING TO RUN ON ABC DURING THE GAME WHEN YOU ARE TAKING BONG RIPS. Randall was neutered, Constance was exoticized, and Young Eddie was urbanized so that the viewers got their mise-en-place. The social contract is here because we have a collective desire to be individuals and preserve our rights to pursue singular happiness with or without cilantro.Those three minutes are the holy trinity Melvin, Randall, Constance, Hudson, Forrest, Ian, and I sacrificed everything for. It makes for a perfect M2M episode when the theatrics, comedy, sisterhood, and ostentatious lifestyle porn come together like this.